Go for Java Programmers • Barry Feigenbaum & Shon Saliga • GOTO 2026

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This interview was recorded for the GOTO Book Club. #GOTOcon #GOTObookclub http://gotopia.tech/bookclub Barry Feigenbaum - Retired Sr. Principal Software Engineer & Author of "Go for Java Programmers" Shon Saliga - IBM Storage Evangelist Check out more here: https://gotopia.tech/episodes/444 RESOURCES Barry https://www.linkedin.com/in/barryfeigenbaum Shon https://www.linkedin.com/in/shon-saliga-32336b2 Links https://youtu.be/ScE9TnoWltA https://youtu.be/v9Pq69Y_yqM https://youtu.be/miUbs3mqPJE https://youtu.be/ZOvxa9aKCCg https://youtu.be/RlCpgSoOX6I https://youtu.be/2749IF7gAbI https://youtu.be/T3vBj9jTCQY https://youtu.be/WpvmRaHEQzA https://youtu.be/8G8jeAUYLAQ https://youtu.be/YAXGU2J7XjM DESCRIPTION Dr. Barry Feigenbaum — an IBM, Amazon and Dell veteran with a PhD in Computer Engineering and decades of Java experience — spent time working with Go on microservices and liked it enough to write the book he wished had existed when he made the switch. In this GOTO Book Club episode with longtime colleague Shon Saliga, he walks through the core contrasts: Go is a compiled language that targets a narrower domain than Java — primarily command-line tools and web servers — but excels there with smaller binaries, faster startup, and dramatically lower container overhead. Concurrency is the headline difference: Go's goroutines are far lighter than Java threads, and its channel-based communication model sidesteps many of the problems that make concurrent Java code hard to reaso

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